Benin - Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Benin was 252.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 473.24 in 1960 and a minimum value of 252.76 in 2020.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) University of California, Berkeley, and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. The Human Mortality Database.

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Year Value
1960 473.24
1961 469.18
1962 465.12
1963 461.13
1964 457.14
1965 453.15
1966 449.16
1967 445.18
1968 442.14
1969 439.10
1970 436.06
1971 433.02
1972 429.99
1973 427.17
1974 424.35
1975 421.54
1976 418.72
1977 415.90
1978 413.31
1979 410.72
1980 408.12
1981 405.53
1982 402.94
1983 391.02
1984 379.10
1985 367.18
1986 355.26
1987 343.33
1988 333.24
1989 323.15
1990 313.07
1991 302.98
1992 292.89
1993 298.05
1994 303.21
1995 308.37
1996 313.53
1997 318.70
1998 317.31
1999 315.92
2000 314.53
2001 313.14
2002 311.75
2003 306.42
2004 301.10
2005 295.77
2006 290.45
2007 285.12
2008 283.04
2009 280.95
2010 278.87
2011 276.79
2012 274.70
2013 271.91
2014 269.11
2015 266.32
2016 263.52
2017 260.72
2018 258.65
2019 255.71
2020 252.76

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data from United Nations Population Division's World Populaton Prospects are originally 5-year period data and the presented are linearly interpolated by the World Bank for annual series. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The main sources of mortality data are vital registration systems and direct or indirect estimates based on sample surveys or censuses. A "complete" vital registration system - covering at least 90 percent of vital events in the population - is the best source of age-specific mortality data. Where reliable age-specific mortality data are available, life tables can be constructed from age-specific mortality data, and adult mortality rates can be calculated from life tables.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality